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| Evans and Capers, his partner |
Tampa, Florida’s New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, canceled the funeral of Julion Evans the night before the funeral ceremony was set to go ahead after finding out he was gay.
Julion Evans had
died from Amyloidosis, a disease which attacked the body's organs.
His husband
Kendall Capers (his male partner) and family had planned to bury the
42-year-old at the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church.
But just hours
before the solemn ceremony, church members read Evans' obituary and saw Capers
described as the "surviving husband."
They phoned the
family to say the funeral could not continue, telling Evans mother, Julie
Atwood it would be "blasphemous" for her son's funeral to be held at
the church.
She said she was
told the news as she stood at her son's casket. Atwood told WFLA the news was
"devastating."
According to the church
pastor, T. W. Jenkins, “I try not to condemn anyone's lifestyle, but at the
same time I am a man of God and have to stand upon my principles.”
The service
eventually went ahead at the funeral home.
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abeg this is good for him and his family. that partner is lucky that he is not in Nigeria, he would spent time in jail! what non-sense!
ReplyDeleteso they still have good pastors like this in America? God will fight for u as u fight against people destroying marriage
ReplyDeleteWONDERS SHALL NEVER END
ReplyDeleteGod bless that pastor.and the church. They should taken the corpse to Obama to bury in his White House. Yeye people
ReplyDeleteSo they were trying to con God and the church. dat crazy partner of d deceased shuld be flogged
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
ReplyDeleteGood man of God, be blessed!!